Landscape and conflict in the age of digital surveillance. Participatory Walking through the surveilled cities

Autori

  • Valentina Erminia Albanese Department of Law, Economy and Culture, University of Insubria, Como, Italy

Abstract

I paradigmi securitari, sviluppati negli ultimi decenni, reagiscono ai problemi sociali controllando e monitorando la popolazione al fine di accumulare dati personali utili per analizzare e promuovere nuovi bisogni. Il capitalismo della sorveglianza trova nelle città l'opportunità di controllare e raccogliere una gigantesca quantità di dati dai sorvegliati inconsapevoli o inconsapevoli, i cittadini tutti. La città adattata alle regole di questa forma contemporanea di capitalismo ha favorito l'implementazione della sorveglianza e del controllo dello spazio urbano attraverso - soprattutto ma non solo - le tecnologie digitali. C'è quindi una nuova enfasi sul visivo nella politica della strada e sul dispositivo panottico utopico teorizzato da Jeremy Bentham (1786) nella città punitiva (Cohen, 1979).La strategia seguita dagli Stati è quella di creare uno spazio urbano visivamente piacevole in cui i dispositivi di sorveglianza invisibili o poco appariscenti contribuiscono allo stesso processo di produzione dello spazio e del paesaggio. L'obiettivo di questo articolo è comprendere le motivazioni e gli effetti sul paesaggio delle politiche di sorveglianza digitale nel contesto urbano, con particolare riferimento a tre temi importanti: marginalità, spettacolo e sorveglianza. A conclusione delle riflessioni teoriche, si propone un esperimento didattico come le passeggiate partecipative utili a osservare gli strumenti di sorveglianza nel paesaggio urbano e a ragionare, in cooperative learning, sul loro utilizzo e sull'impatto che hanno sulle città e sulla vita quotidiana delle persone.

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2022-12-20

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V. 2 (2022)

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Learning Landscapes ed. by Benedetta Castiglioni, Marcello Tanca

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